zanatçi

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Albanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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By surface analysis, zanat (“craft”) +‎ -xhi.[1][2] Likely borrowed from dialectal form of Ottoman Turkish صنعتجی (sanatçı)[n 1][2] whence also Turkish sanatçı.

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -i

Noun

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zanatçi m (plural zanatçinj, definite zanatçiu)

  1. craftsman, artisan
    Synonym: zejtar
  2. master, expert
    Synonym: mjeshtër

Notes

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  1. ^ Attested with a z- in transcription texts since 1560.[3][4]

References

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  1. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “zanát”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 481
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “zanatçi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, pages 523–524
  3. ^ Stachowski, Stanisław (1996) Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen (Studia Turcologica Cracoviensia; 2) (in German), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, page 181f
  4. ^ Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 4)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎[1], volume 137, number 4, →DOI, page 321

Further reading

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  • “zanatçi”, in FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe‎[2] (in Albanian), 1980, page 2209
  • Topalli, K. (2017) “zanatçi”, in Fjalor Etimologjik i Gjuhës Shqipe, Durrës, Albania: Jozef, page 1614
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